Jessica Rice on Legacy Leadership, Personal Branding, and Empowerment Through Coaching, Fashion, and Thoughtful Team Development

Every leader reaches a moment when it’s time to stop climbing and start defining the mountain.

Jessica Rice has built her career helping others step into theirs. She is a strategist, coach, and founder of Jessica Rice Coaching, who is the go-to expert for professionals ready to lead with clarity, communicate with power, and build a brand that connects with their next chapter.

She is also the founder of Rowan and Hazel Co., an e-commerce store dealing with fashion, home goods, and professional tools designed to help ambitious women express their authentic style. 

Jessica’s unique aspect is merging strategy with self-expression. She helps high-achieving women build personal brands with purpose and dress for the legacy they want to create.

From Burnout to Boardroom Brilliance

Jessica’s work centers around what she calls Legacy Leadership. It’s the idea that a career shouldn’t just build status. It should build something that lasts. Her clients are accomplished, yet at a pivot point; they are tech leaders, consultants, and executives who have earned respect but feel disconnected from what comes next.

She helps them:

• Define their leadership voice.
• Communicate with presence and conviction.
• Build authority platforms that attract board seats, consulting gigs, and C-suite roles.
• Transition out of burnout and back into purpose.
• Reclaim their identity and direction.

Jessica puts it plainly: “Your expertise got you here. Your leadership legacy will get you there.”

Her coaching framework, The Legacy Leadership Path™, guides clients through clarity, visibility, and lasting impact. Through 1:1 coaching or her structured programs like Powerhouse Presence™ or Legacy Accelerator, she’s shaping thought leaders who want to change the system.

Style Meets Strategy: Rowan and Hazel Co.

Jessica has recently launched Rowan and Hazel Co., a fashion and home lifestyle brand designed for ambitious women, and providing every product from sleek workout gear to curated stationery. Not to mention the wardrobe essentials that can best be described as “confidence in wearable form.”

The business model is clear:

• Affordable, stylish, and work-ready clothing.
• A $5 donation per purchase to causes that support women’s empowerment and education.
• A focus on authenticity, impact, and expression.

It’s a natural extension of her belief that personal presence should reflect inner purpose.

In fact, Jessica was first introduced to fashion by her mother, a design major at FIDM in San Francisco. That early connection led to an understanding of how self-expression affects self-worth. Now, through Rowan and Hazel, she helps women show up fully aligned. 

Tech, Tools, and Team Transformation

Jessica’s vision keeps evolving.

She recently joined forces with a mobile app founder to explore new tech-based ways of supporting personal growth. She’s also rolling out a B2B team development offering designed to help companies develop authentic teams and leaders.

She bridges brand strategy with neuroscience, psychology, and team dynamics. With this new corporate offering, Jessica is helping teams:

• Build trust across departments.
• Develop inclusive leadership practices.
• Improve communication and emotional intelligence.
• Align internal brand with external impact.

The Power of Legacy

In her Powerhouse Sessions and newsletter, MindBytes, Jessica highlights the influence of thoughtful, grounded leadership. She champions quiet leaders, especially women, who are done chasing titles and ready to lead with aligned impact.

Topics she’s passionate about include:

• Developing your personal leadership brand.
• The rise of thoughtful leaders in tech.
• Building visibility without selling out.
• The courage to define success on your terms.
• Creating psychological safety in organizations.
• Helping women find their leadership voice.

Conclusion

Jessica Rice doesn’t believe in random success. She believes in building it with intention, elegance, and strategy. Her mission is to help women choose everything from the right path, the perfect plan, or the best blazer for that pitch meeting. 

But most of all, she’s helping them move forward with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Through her leadership coaching, team development programs, and the empowering lifestyle brand Rowan and Hazel, clients gain tools and direction. Individuals build a presence that reflects who they are and where they’re going. 

Are you ready to build a brand that reflects your next chapter and to feel powerful in what you wear while creating it? Jessica Rice has something for you.